Reading list: 'We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It's disgusting'...( See if you can find the word "petulant" somewhere in this post)

lucianne.com

Via Drudge; PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game   "The games politicians play: Barack Obama is having a lot of fun using the government shutdown to squeeze the public in imaginative ways. The point of the shutdown game is to see who can squeeze hardest, make the most pious speech and listen for the applause."
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“ 'It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
"The Republicans, fighting with smaller-bore weaponry, keep trying to get some things reopened with carefully targeted legislation. The Senate, under the thumbs of Sen. Harry Reid and the White House, refuses to budge from the trivial and the petty."
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.

UPDATE from The Comical Conservative

Thomas Sowell; Who Shut Down the Government?   "There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for Obamacare."

Case in point: WWII Memorial Barricade Wired Shut
"But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they've been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together:"

Closure of War Memorials Continues to Cause Conflict   "News4's Mark Segraves said two U.S. Park Service Rangers manning the gate asked that the group respect the government's shutdown but moved aside.

"Segraves described the exchange as pleasant and respectful."

Comment posted by: spahrkl, 10/4/2013 4:13:05 PM   Via Lucianne
He closed down the Normandy Park!
What a vicious individual Obama. To close this park is purely ugly. Now France and the world now see what a puny little man this Obama really is.          

This Is All About a Petulant President  "In the showdown over the shutdown of the U.S. government, the Obamaites tipped their hand yesterday as what their strategy is.
"Taking a page out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," the plan is to maximize the people's pain — to maximize the political damage to the enemy, the Republican Party."  Patrick J. Buchanan